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Banks are the backbone of Switzerland's economy, accounting for 12% of national GDP, and for decades they have been central to the Swiss view of themselves. But the past few months have not been good for the industry, and in particular UBS, which has been under a cloud since last summer. That was when news broke that U.S. authorities were investigating the world's largest manager of private wealth for its role in helping rich Americans hide $200 billion in undisclosed offshore accounts to avoid taxes. Last month UBS agreed to pay the U.S. a $780 million penalty...
...wide cross section of patients could help us do better research than we are doing now. But what will happen when the new computerized research turns up a treatment that works a little better but costs much more? Will they tell us? What happens to the patient whose particular circumstances argue for a different treatment than the computers and the bureaucrats recommend...
...Tomes and Reynolds will definitely be in there,” senior outfielder Tom Stack-Babich says. “They can do a lot of little things, they both run well, can play multiple positions and look like they understand how to play a particular role in helping a team...
...able to share Good News with such a crowd is a blessing. I just don’t know what we’re going to do about this Negro Problem.”Well, I could have cared less about this Negro Problem (was it one in particular or all of them?). But I did let my noodle think on it once Daddy and I squeezed in to the foyer. What else could I do as I waited there, horrified that someone’s condolence was about to explode on top of me?Daddy talked and talked away...
...both emotionally resonant and aesthetically restrained.Lepson’s poetry is filled with tender descriptions of places that clearly hold significance to her as a Massachusetts local. These locations are, more often than not, oriented around the ocean—especially the seaside town of Swampscott, MA. In particular, “Ocean at Bay, Swampscott” lovingly describes the poem’s namesake with an eye for detail only poets can manage. Lepson describes the many colors of Swampscott’s water—“blue ice, glint-white, brown?...